Monday, September 10, 2007

Prayers for Pain Relief

For those who don’t know, my father was rushed to the hospital this morning because of his inability to breathe on his own. After a long and painful day, the doctors discovered a clot (at least one, maybe more) in his left leg. Because of his condition they were not able to do a scan to definitively say one was in his lung, but it is safe to assume it is, due to his labored breathing.
He had a procedure done tonight to prevent any more clots from entering his lungs. But we have to pray he can break the clot up in his lung on his own. At this point, because of his previous and present tumors, he cannot go on high doses of blood thinners to help in this process.

Please pray he breaks this clot up quickly. Every day he is fighting this he is not taking his radiation and chemo treatments. And that means his tumors are continuing to grow.

He is in severe pain still, especially with this newest symptom of labored breathing. Please pray for relief of this. We don’t know what God wants, but we do know He can do it all! Pray for His will in my dad’s life. He has fought the good fight. And he diligently worked for the Kingdom all his life. We know the rewards are waiting for him in a much better place. But we also know God can continue to use him here.

May God be glorified every day. And may we, as my Daddy always says, remember that every day is a gift.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Erin,

We love you all and will continue to pray for Gary and the family. We are here for you all. Let us know what we can do.
Jack, Andrea and Anna

Teresa and Bob said...

Gary,Hope, Erin and Brooke,
Please know that Bob and I are in "intense" prayer for Gary and all of you.